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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Alabama bans devices converting pistols to machine guns

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A woman signs a memorial sign remembering four people who were killed in a shooting outside a nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2024. Photograph: Safiyah Riddle/AP

The Republican governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, signed a gun control bill on Wednesday, banning “Glock switches” and other devices that turn rifles and pistols into machine guns.

Ivey said: “While there is a federal ban on these gun conversion devices, we needed a way to empower our own law enforcement here in Alabama to get these illegal and extremely dangerous Glock switches off our streets.

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